Dear Ev,

Actually it took me a while to get pass the christmas attack as you call it.
I would feel sad when I heard christmas carols in the stores, you know the old ones, which we were raised with. I am sad that its gone so commerical, now you really see the ads and the flyers which come in the mail! But everything has gone commercial. I remember when "chex Mix" was when my mom would make it in the kitchen from scratch. Now its ready made, available all year long. I remember her peanut brittle, homemade as well. For my kids they go to a charter school and its more private and not so holiday oriented.

You know what I like is when family gets together. Now we try to do things as a family more often. With our society so far away from eachother I can see why Holidays are so treasured. Its memories, and the need for family unity. I feel I have been able to accomplish this without the holidays, but with true love, and calling my family often and sending gifts throughout the year to them, and also visiting them etc. ( i mean sometimes, people only get together in the name of tradition and it has nothing to do with love but only as show, but these types of people are not the reason I dont celebrate certain holidays )


Thanks for asking

Take care~

I do not celebrate Christmas- but did when the kids were at home-

I had gotten kinda a bad attitude about it- commercialism plus it 86 degrees in decemebr and the water temp is 64-Can this be the yuletide?

Then I went to Self Realization Fellowship yesterday and the monk Iliananda said something that resonated with me

Something along the lines that Christams is a time of buying shopping and giving but underneath all of that there is still something special about that time of year (even though Jesus was almost surely not born in Decemeber based opn the astrology and star positions)

And the specialness is the Christ consciousness and that if we all have a day of meditating, praying, whatever you may do with you soul life...

"The light will rain down upon the earth" There are other cultures that are doing the same in the holiday season whether the enchanted gardeners essene Judiasm, certainly the Hindus, and I am not sure about the Moslem Traditions (R, do you know)
But the season is holy to over half the earth and that prayer or that meditation joins all the others and raises the vibration of the earth and us

At Self Realization Fellowship we have a 8 hour mediatation- I have not been doing deep meditations lately- but there is an opportunity ( a kirtan break- musicians and chanting) in the 4th hour, I will leave then.

Ilinanada also said for those new people who 4 hours seems like an impossible amount of time- come you will be carried by the vibration and the time will go by without your knowing it

And I did remember a time when this was true- so I have not been bulding up ( we have meditations from October on building on the length (and depth) of the meditation
Like training for a marathon or any atheletic event-

I have not trained this year but I will go and let those who have carry me...on their vibration

We had a Xmas party yesterday- and I met a very influential fellow in the training and development field- a conflict negotiator and manager- He is a teacher in my program - training and development...Who would have thought? But there you have
There were many strange alignments yesterday

And I knew it sprung from my devotion earlier in the day